Funeral home owner and undertaker Dual Hood knows a good thing when he sees it, so when Charlie Soder applies for the job of embalmer, he snatches up the young man in a heartbeat. Charlie, fresh-faced and just out of college, also knows a good thing when he sees it, and immediately sets his sights on his new sexy boss.<br><br>It doesn’t take long for sparks to fly and romance to blossom. But Dual worries what folks in his small Mississippi town will say, and whether his family-owned business will suffer if word goes round about his new love interest. He isn’t at all certain he has the courage to do the right thing and grab love before it slips through his fingers.

The Undertaker's Secret

I called Charlie, told him we had a death call, and that I’d get the van and meet him at his door.


Two minutes later, we were on our way to the coroner’s office, which was over in Amory by the justice center.


“I want you to meet the coroner, is why I called you,” I said.


“Sure,” he said sleepily. Had he been sleeping? And not tossing and turning like me? The thought annoyed me.


“Having yourself a good sleep?” I asked.


“I always do after good sex,” he replied easily. “Makes me wanna sleep like a baby.”


It was on the tip of my tongue to say I had been having trouble sleeping, that I missed him, that I wanted to share my bed with him, wake up next to him, feel him close to me.


“I don’t know where you learned to suck dick, but damn,” he added. “As far as I’m concerned, you can suck my dick anytime you want.”


“We should do it in one of the caskets.”


Chapter 13